How I escaped my nightmare life in the 'Baby Factory'... and the hellish punishment drove me to flee
The son of a Scientologist mother, he was placed in the care of the church's nursery months after his birth in 1970. His earliest memories are of the cracked, dust-caked linoleum floors of a Los Angeles apartment building that he calls the 'Baby Factory.'
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